Lt. Scott Crull (center) and Officer Zach Taylor speak with Brandon Winters after Winters was detained Monday when a search warrant was executed at his North 12th Street residence. Mike Emery/Palladium-Item

RICHMOND, Ind. — A formal charge of dealing methamphetamine has been filed against a Richmond man arrested Monday by the Wayne County Drug Task Force.

Brandon Scott Winters, 33, of the 200 block of North 12th Street is charged by the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office with Level 5 felony dealing methamphetamine, Level 6 felony possession of methamphetamine and Level 6 felony possession of a syringe. The prosecutor's office filed the charging paperwork Tuesday.

The Drug Task Force and SWAT team executed a search warrant just before noon Monday at Winters' residence. Winters and Jasmin Breeze Cash, 21, of the 700 block of Keyser Lane, were arrested at the residence. Cash, who was caught attempting to climb out a window, was jailed on a preliminary misdemeanor charge of visiting a common nuisance. Court records do not show an active case against her yet.

Jail records indicate that Winters and Cash were released from the Wayne County Jail about 12:15 p.m. Wednesday.

The Drug Task Force received its search warrant for Winters' residence after it conducted a controlled buy May 3, according to an affidavit of probable cause. A confidential informant claimed to have purchased methamphetamine and heroin multiple times from Winters at his residence. Task force officers had also received tips about the residence and the possible sale of drugs.

On May 3, the informant exchanged $20 for a pink, paper bindle that contained a crystal-like substance that tested positive for methamphetamine, the affidavit said. The informant entered the residence's back door and met with Winters.

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The informant used text messages to set up another methamphetamine purchase for Monday morning, and received a text from Winters that Winters was waiting for the informant to make the purchase, according to the affidavit. Instead, the SWAT team entered the residence about 11:50 a.m. and detained Winters and Cash.

During a search of the residence, the affidavit said, task force officers found a bag with a powder-like substance, a pill bottle with a crystal-like substance, a bindle with a crystal-like substance, 67 syringes from the county's syringe exchange program, 10 generic syringes, three glass smoking pipes and three packets of accessories, such as water ampules, rubber tie-offs, cotton balls and disinfectant swabs, obtained from the syringe exchange program.

According to the affidavit, the crystal substances tested positive for methamphetamine.